Updated template and upload

Friday, January 9, 2009

As you can see I updated the design of the blog. Its been a while since I've touched any of my blogs. However I'm slowly but steadily trying to get back on track. You could say I'm trying to rekindle my interest in blogging. To do this I decided to start by working on the template of my two blogs. It was particularly interesting experience because it has been well over a year since I've worked on HTML and I've never touched CSS. But this is one of those things I've been meaning to learn more about. And there are few things like the sense of accomplishment you get when you figure something out. For example while fixing the search box to the right here I spent the better part of an afternoon just to learn that I simply needed to change a single letter of code (an "s" for a "q"). Nothing quite like learning, eh?

Another thing that I wanted to find when working with the template was find a way to integrate it with the flickr and blip site. So it was great to find one with the link at the top. Lets see... what else... . I found that one of the videos about the project wasn't uploaded yet so that will go up next week and if all goes as planned I'll be cross-posting it here as well.

Work/Work/Work

Saturday, May 10, 2008

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Title: Work/work/work

"Way too much work"

This is a bio video for my art 553 class. As it is right now the main idea is that its supposed to represent my current sate of mind. And that has been work. Recently all the classwork/graduation/job-search-work has been quite a stress for me. But, instead of depicting the stress, I worked on showing different perspectives of the same situation: the view of the outsider towards me and the work, my view towards the work, and the view of the works towards me.

I'm Back! Finally I'm back!

Lets forget that I haven't uploaded anything here for several months and enjoy the fact that I'm back at work with my blog. There are many reasons why I haven't worked here, depression, work, procrastination, graduation, family, friends, relationships and what have you. Some fun and some not so much, and it seems like a hassle and of no particular interest to explain them all. So lets get on with business!

So, what I have been up to? The most important thing right now has been working with my graduation. I'm currently taking two video classes and polishing up (at least trying to polish) my Path to Enlightenment video. Also I'm debating on the purpose of having two blogs. Right now I don't know what I should make each one about. As its stands right now my video-place blog is rather empty and I would prefer to use it for videos, and personal stuff. However my stupas in video already has content and is more polished (here I go... using the same word twice). So until I decide what I want to do with my video-place blog I'll just use it only0 to cross post videos from blip , and this one will serve as a "base of operations" for my blogging needs. Also I've uploaded a few videos to blip recently so I'll start cross posting them to my blogs as soon as possible.

Oh! And to all who may be reading: The Master of Fine Arts exhibition reception is tonight at 6pm in the OSU Urban Arts Space. And the opening of the Bachelors of Fine Arts Exhibition (in which I'll be a part of) will be June 7th between 3pm and 9pm at the OSU Urban Arts Space and several other campus sites (I'll give more information about it as we go along).

Path to Enlightenment

Monday, March 10, 2008

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Path to enlightenment is a video about the symbolism present in Budhist stupas.

Post-Art and tech Show Status

Well I'm finally done with the video. At least that's how it should feel like. I had much more planned with this video but I ended up doing a more simplified version of it. Several of the things that didn't occur were to incorporate several of the stupa designs into the video and create a sort of explanation of their symbolism. A few other things that I feel are either missing or not as polished are the sound, the incorporation of the images into the stupa and the overall movement of the camera. Well that needs to get worked on as soon as possible I guess. Now, don't think that just because there are things that I felt are unfinished that the video isn't any good. For example I do feel that both the interior of the stupas and the images by themselves are quite good. Also the 3D model of the stupa itself is not that bad. I'll be posting the video very shortly to Blip.tv, hopefully to Youtube as well so that everyone can see what I mean by all this.

So whats left to do? Well my break between quarters start very soon so I'll be spending more time polishing up the video, and submitting it to different shows. Oh wait did I tell y'all that I finnaly ! Ha! I'm giddy just to try them out at my computer. Also I need to finish my installation for the video! aaaah! Artwork. So much stuff to do so little time.

Art and Tech exhibition

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Here you go friends and fellow blog readers, this here is the flyer of the Winter Art and Technology Exhibition where I will have my video in one of the reels.



I have a feeling that the artwork this quarter will be quite awesome so make sure to come early to get some of the free food before watching all of the artwork.

Update: More images

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Well the work is not coming out as fast as I had hoped for. But here we have two more images of 60 that need to be made, and animated in a space (yet to be made and animated itself) that I uploaded to Flickr.






I need food right now, so explanations will come later on.

Ps. If anyone out there has a time machine they would be willing to lend, please send an email to stupasinvideo@yahoo.com. I need to go back in time so I can either work in secret and finish the video, or I to kick my past self in the butt and tell him to get to work.

Old sketches and current state of work

Its Crunch time!

Indeed my friends and fellow readers, it's crunch time. The project is officially due next week and it needs to get done no matter what. Depression, anxiety, stress, life's problems can all go to wherever they're supposed to go because they can no longer stay here. This needs to get done. So what does that mean for you? Well, ironically, it means I have stuff to show you about my project.

Right now I've uploaded a series of sketches for the images that are going to be used in the video. Here's an example of one of the sketches (page 4)



As I found through my research, each level of a Tibetan stupa represents a series of practices that help you reach enlightenment (Bodhipakkhiya Dhamma or Shichika Sanjushichidohon). These are the sketches for these practices. On this page I have the images that represent the cattaro iddhipada, which are desire to act, effort, mind and investigation.

I also uploaded three of the finished images:



This is actually the third cattaro iddhipada: Thought.